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Hello Blair

After a first insight into the new distribution, I have to send you my
congratulations for it. Installed the english version and it did it
fine. I need some time to test it a little bit more, especially with
other language selections. As far what I've seen, it makes a very good look.

Andreas

Blair Campbell wrote:
> Uploaded to 
> www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0-Testing/fdbasecd.iso
> is hopefully the very last testing distribution before 1.0 is released
> (and that emm386 update to be available soon should come with it).
> The new features are too many to describe, so you'll have to download
> it and find out :-).
> 
> Aw well ok here are the new features:
> 
> - A spiffy updated installer compiled with OpenWatcom.
> 
> - The latest stable kernel updates
> 
> - Completely updated htmlhelp documents
> 
> - EMM386 2.23, DEFRAG 1.0, a bugfixed FDPKG, and the very latest quite
> stable FreeCOM 0.84pre2
> 
> - Revamped batch files (again); setup can be started from (presumably)
> any decent DOS setup as long as all of the files are in the root
> directory of a drive
> 
> - When a user chooses English-only settings, DISPLAY and MODE are not
> unnecessarily loaded in the default autoexec.bat
> 
> - Eltorito.sys AND XCDROM.sys are both used to access the CD-ROM when
> booting from CD-ROM (in that order, too).  If Eltorito.sys fails,
> XCDROM.sys will be tried.
> 
> - Mouses are enabled in powerbatch now (which also contains detection
> to see if a mouse is available)
> 
> - A menu option in the default config.sys can load SHARE (to be able
> to load Windows 3.1).
> 
> - Moved postset.bat to be called by postinst.bat (configures all
> necessary packages, checking for dependencies along the way).
> 
> One of the last things to do before 1.0 is to make an official kernel
> 2037-unstable 'package'.
> 
> That's it folks :-).
> 

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